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So you never crave that 9-5 rhythm that guarantees you guilt work free evenings, sipping wine without spilling your keypad, again? You happily work away days on end. Screeching cats, hungry husbands, and cute kids are just white noise for you? Whatever real life might hold in store, it won’t compare to your newest project. So real life…

Language service providers come in all sorts of shapes and sizes ranging from the super professionally PRO with capital letters to the carefree creative types. They speak different languages. They have dissimilar interests. And they don’t always agree on the fundamentals of translation. But whether they know it or not, they have one thing in…

My favorite nerd joke goes like this: There are two types of people in the world. 1) Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data. [End of joke.] Pricing language services requires a lot of extrapolation. There isn’t much data out there, is there? And what pricing information is out there doesn’t always seem reliable. There’s talk,…

In our last post on the road to GDPR compliance, we looked at the role of data processors and data controllers and some of the articles of the GDPR with which you will need to familiarize yourself. In today’s post, we’re going to focus on the number one thing on everyone’s mind and some of…

Life is hard and marketing can be a bit of a bee in your bonnet, especially if you’re much more comfortable walking the walk than talk the talk. Maybe LinkedIn has you overwhelmed. Facebook changes rules and reach faster than any sane person could keep up with. And ProZ feels like the everlasting Black Friday…

Last week, the Biz Muses offered a free introductory webinar on our Marketing Group for language professionals who wanted to learn about the GPDR. The webinar was quite successful. In fact, it was scheduled to last only an hour, but our attendees had SO many questions, that it went on for 2 hours instead! Because…

May 25, 2018, hovers threateningly above the heads of entrepreneurs. Some call it the monster under the bed. Do you lose sleep over the GDPR? We’re here to help! We browsed the web, tried and tested sources we know we can trust to help you prepare for the new need-dos and must-dos. What the GDPR…

Localization and internationalization are growing at a rate of knots. The translation industry as a whole is growing at a rate of 26% a year, and localization plays a significant part in that. Recent research, carried out by the Common Sense Advisory, shows that 72% of people spend the vast majority of their time, if…

In 2016, I conducted a somewhat small and informal online survey about translation contracts and I was astounded by the results. My survey revealed that 48.7% of responding translators regularly did business without a contract. As a lawyer, the idea of professionals providing any service without the backup and protection of an ironclad contract is…

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